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A film student facing a moral crisis struggles to come up with a concept for a short film for his school project.
The life of a young woman is turned upside down after a violent assault, making her realize the fragility of her freedom.
The final chapter in Kenny Philippe's trauma trilogy.
When an actress goes looking for the man who assaulted her, she turns her trauma into art and asks the question nobody wanted her to: why didn't you do anything?
A one-night performance marking the U.K.’s National Youth Theatre organization’s 70th anniversary.
A mail deliverer is captured by Irish-American gangsters to launder money and drugs for them in this black comedy thriller.
A year after the grisly murder of a local exotic dancer, the victim’s sister, Lyric, searches for the serial killer responsible as he stalks and kills his favorite dancers on the night of the anniversary.
A rock band in the 80s made a promise to never give up on their dream of becoming the next Iron Maiden. Forty years later, they're still rehearsing in the same garage - and realize that dream will never come true. They decide to go out on one final tour... where everything goes hilariously wrong.
Unaware that they are both involved with Capucine, Henri and Charles debate historical and literary figures in a Parisian bookstore.
Marion Wayne is a chaotic gunslinger traveling the country with his small gang. When he gets captured by the law he learns of an indifference of power within the law, and upon breaking out of prison he pursues a revenge arc to balance the system.
Giacomo Falta is a man ignored by everyone, unable to find his place in the world. When he meets the charismatic Giason the Great, the man who embodies everything he has always wanted to be, he makes a dangerous decision, convinced that putting on a different face is all he needs to do to finally be seen. Thus begins a long night, in which the boundary between identity and illusion grows increasingly blurred, to the point where Giacomo's very existence is put at risk.
Max and his friends, Pedro and Bruna, discover a time machine and decide to test it. What begins as an adventure quickly turns into a nightmare when Pedro inexplicably tries to kill Max, who must repeatedly travel back a few seconds in time to survive and uncover the truth. Caught in an unstable timeline, the three friends confront dark truths about themselves, the weight of their choices, and the unpredictable consequences of trying to rewrite destiny.
In an age of grim violence and gore-drenched savagery, a brave warrior embarks on an epic adventure to rescue a beautiful harem girl from the clutches of insidious evil. Journey with Grunk as he braves the Catacombs of Madness, bargains with fiendish witches, and smashes strange and fantastic creatures in his quest to quench his lusty barbarian appetites.
After being displaced from his home by the U.S. Navy to build a military base, Puerto Rican fisherman Carlos “Taso” Zenón pledged his life to fight against the military occupation of the island of Vieques. Alongside Puerto Rican fishermen and activists, Zenón organized countless efforts to halt U.S. war games in the Caribbean Sea. Never-before-seen archival footage reveals the artisanal strategies implemented by fearless fishermen to defy warships, inspiring one of the most influential environmental and anti-war movements in the Caribbean.
A short documentary weaving intimate portraits of community farm stewards in Southwest Philadelphia. Through the rhythms of planting, cooking and sharing food, the protagonists reveal how everyday acts of care and resistance nurture belonging, foster cross-cultural kinship and preserve a sense of home amid the pressures of gentrification and displacement.
Upon moving into the house of a deceased relative, a woman begins to notice peculiar happenings around her.
On his way home from work, Agnus's life is turned upside down when the bus he's on is robbed. In the midst of the chaos, a mysterious masked heroine appears and hands him a book: The Hero's Handbook. With this strange guide in hand, Agnus is thrown into a hidden underworld, fragmented between heroes, villains and The Omitteds. The villains are about to join forces with The Omitteds in a rarely seen deal, as, equipped with dangerous bubble technology, they are now able to drain the virtue from almost anyone, even the heroes. With the villains' power growing, the world is on the brink of collapse. Now, Agnus will need to use the skills he acquired from the Hero's Handbook and discover that being a hero is not about power, but about wanting to.
